Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.